Arts & Entertainment Zany French Pop Dance Soiree 'Bardot A Go Go' Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Bastille Day Party This Saturday It’s the silver anniversary faire la fête of the French discotheque Bardot A Go Go’s annual Bastille Day Party this Saturday, and its co-founder looks back on 25 years of crepes, cigarettes, and 1960s period apparel.
SF News Alleged ‘Waymo Slasher’ Charged With Slashing the Tires on 17 Waymo Self-Driving Cars A 36-year-old man who’s apparently not fond of self-driving robotaxis allegedly went on a tire-stabbing spree against them, and stands accused of slashing Waymo tires 17 times in a three-day span, though the cars’ cameras caught him on video.
SF Politics Alameda County Judge Up for Federal Bench Gets Grilled by Republicans Over Trump Criticism, Trans Issues Alameda County Superior Court Judge Noël Wise is in line for a big promotion to the federal judiciary, and as such, was lambasted by attention-seeking Republican senators Wednesday. But she’s still likely to be confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Abruptly Revokes That State Assistance He Offered to Alameda County DA Pamela Price In a very public rebuke of Alameda County DA Pamela Price, Governor Gavin Newsom has suddenly yanked the extra state attorneys he’d offered to Price, saying, “Your office has yet to make use of these resources.”
Arts & Entertainment Giant New Statue of Woman in Jogging Gear Goes Up Along Embarcadero There’s a towering new statue between the Ferry Building and Pier 1 of a nine-foot-tall woman dressed in jogging apparel, and the work “As Sounds Turn to Noise" will be there on loan from a gallery in Los Angeles for the next six months.
SF News Current COVID Uptick Appears to Be Coming With New Symptoms, Like Stomach Issues California is experiencing much the same summer COVID upturn as the rest of the nation, and there’s some evidence that the symptoms of the new virus variants now include gastrointestinal issues too.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland First Fridays Reportedly at Risk Again, Amidst Rising Event Costs and Lower Foot Traffic After returning from a four-month hiatus earlier this year, we have a report that the popular First Fridays event in Oakland may be on the rocks again, with financial concerns over permitting costs and fewer vending spots.
SF News SFPD Might Expand Their Police Chase Policies to Allow Chases of Nonviolent Felony Suspects The Prop E measure that SF voters approved in March is coming home to roost, as the SF Police Commission is about to consider new rules that expand the types of cases where SFPD officers can engage in car chases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Company Takes Gold Medal at California State Fair Cannabis Awards Elton John was announced as the headliner for the big Dreamforce 2024 concert; Waymo and the rideshare companies might be taxed to save Muni; and a Bay Area cannabis company just won the gold medal at the California State Fair Cannabis Awards.
SF News The Oakland Zoo Will Soon Lose Its Last Remaining Elephant, 30-Year-Old Osh The only elephant left at the Oakland Zoo will be moving to a sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, and once the male elephant Osh is gone, there won’t be any more elephants at any zoos in the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Report: Hidden Cameras Rampant in Airbnb Units, Sexual Predators Allowed to Keep Hosting A new CNN report finds that Airbnb is receiving thousands of complaints a year about creepy hosts using security cameras to record their guests' intimate moments, and the company has allowed sex offenders to keep hosting, or even become “Superhosts.”
Bay Area Sports Video: Stars Come Out for Willie Mays’s Celebration of Life at Giants Ballpark Everyone from Spike Lee to Bill Clinton to Barry Bonds and plenty more came out Monday for a star-studded two-and-a-half-hour tribute to the late Giants great Willie Mays at Oracle Park, paying a joyful homage to the “Say Hey Kid.”
SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Dacari Spiers, Victim In Notorious 2019 SFPD Brutality Case One man has been arrested for killing the central figure in a high-profile 2019 police brutality case that dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as SFPD has arrested a 43-year-old man for the June fatal shooting of Dacari Spiers.
SF News Large Blaze at Civic Center Residential Building Injures One, Displaces Three The charging of an electric scooter was apparently to blame for a one-alarm fire at Leavenworth and McAlister streets Monday morning, and while the blaze was out within an hour or so, one person was hospitalized and three more people were displaced.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Romantic Partner Now Appears Ensnared In FBI Investigation, Too The Oakland City Attorney may have some insights into what’s being investigated after the FBI raid on the mayor’s home, and Sheng Thao’s partner has been named. Oh, and a karaoke club with alleged drug sales and human trafficking just entered the scandal.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two SF Giants Just Got Named to This Year’s MLB All-Star Team We have some new details on the Channing Tatum movie that’s been shooting near Golden Gate Park; a couple dozen East Bay parks that were closed for the heat wave have reopened; and the SF Giants just got a pitcher and outfielder named to the NL All-Star team for next week’s game.
SF News Day After Independence Day Hangover Links: California Forcing Permanent Water Cutbacks Starting in 2027 Fourth of July fireworks brought mayhem to the Mission and grass fires to the East Bay; a large new wildfire near Yosemite has burned nearly 800 acres and forced evacuations; and California will be imposing strict new water restrictions starting in 2027.
Arts & Entertainment You Can Win Outside Lands Tickets By Helping Clean Dolores Park Saturday (Though It Might Be During the Dolores Hill Bomb?) Here’s a nice volunteer opportunity: You can win free tickets to Outside Lands by volunteering to help clean up Dolores Park this Saturday. But it will be sunny with a chance of riots and mass arrests, because the infamous Dolores Hill Bomb might be the same day.
Arts & Entertainment Those Pride Weekend Laser Cannons Will Be Back for July 4th Weekend, But They’ll Be Red, White, and Blue SF skies will be bedazzled with colorful lasers for the second weekend in a row, as the Pride Weekend’s big rainbow lasers will return as big red, white, and blue lasers, Wednesday night and through the rest of Independence Day weekend.
SF News Two SFPD Motorcycle Officers Hospitalized After Collision With Car in Potrero Hill A pair of SFPD officers on motorcycles were struck head-on by a car at around 5 pm Tuesday afternoon, with the car reportedly being that of an Uber driver, and both officers and the driver are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News 78-Year-Old Woman Charged With Four Counts of Vehicular Manslaughter in West Portal Crash That Killed Family The tragic March crash that killed a family of four will result in vehicular homicide charges against 78-year-old Mary Fong Lau, who was reportedly driving her SUV at double the speed limit, and in the wrong lane at that.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Heat Wave Keeps Cooking, Wednesday Expected to Be Even Hotter The owners of that dog who attacked a three-year-old boy have spoken publicly; a 78-year-old woman has been charged in the West Portal crash that killed a family of four; and this current California heat wave might produce the hottest temperature ever recorded.
SF News Some Jokers Posted Signs In Union Square Saying ‘Stolen Goods Must Remain Under $950’ These unauthorized signs were apparently real and placed in Union Square, creating a viral uproar among people who believed the signs’ official-looking claim that "stolen goods must remain under $950."
SF News Another Bicyclist Struck and Injured by Motorist In Controversial Valencia Bike Lane While SF has decided to toss out the new and widely criticized center-running bike lane on Valencia Street, a bicyclist was hit, bloodied up, and hospitalized this weekend by a driver reportedly making a U-turn on that street.
